“The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.”

“It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.”

“You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.”

“The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.”

“History is the study of the world's crime”

“This liberty is all that I request.”

“My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold, But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.”

“Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.”

“O, how full of briers is this working-day world!”

“O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.”

“It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.”

“I was born free as Caesar; so were you”

“I must have libertyWithal, as large a charter as the wind,To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.”

“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?”

“Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.”

“The weary sun hath made a golden setAnd by the bright tract of his fiery carGives token of a goodly day to-morrow.”

“Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.”

“With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out”

“All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.”

“No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.”